To report our clinical experience with intravesical instillations of 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) for the photodynamic diagnosis of bladder cancer and to assess any side-effects of the diagnostic method.Photodynamic diagnosis was performed in 18 patients of which 14 were men and 4 women with a ...
. XBM false positive elevations were detected in 90 patients (26.7%), whereas 10 patients with the invasive method had a false positive result (3%),p<0.001. However, early detection of recurrences during the first year’s follow-up after an XBM false positive result was observed in 18 ...